what is your biggest extravagance and

[charmkin]

what are you really tight about?

Thankls PC!
Far out, it really is a big scene eh?
I thought you must be Afro Caribbean but after seeing your dh am assuming not?
So you plan and spend all year round do you?

A dissertation would be an excellent idea.

LOL- no idea what DH's background is, his Father was found on a street corner aged 3. rumour is it that actually, yes HIS father was black airman (FIL was a war baby) which would explain DH's dark vcolouring and afro hair. genuinely no idea.

Yup pretty big scene- the big clubs raise up to £60K a year ech per float, we only do £5k atm. there was a cancelled carnival, one of the smallest ones last year (wellington) that led to 2000 of us being stranded accorsdingt o press and Bridgwater is watched by 150,000.

And yet, every single other carnivalite is a friend you can call on, regardless of iif you ever met them. Odd, huh? but lovely. And the kids are in it now, so another generation

How lovely!
Wacky story about your dh's dad!

biggest spend was a gps bought by dh for me at xmas. it was boscene by our standards, but with my job has been the best bloody thing i ever had.

i am tight about almost everything else.

electricity at the moment becuase of whopping bill - i go round turning lights off, the fridge is off, nothng is on standby

no phone calls before 6pm and ven changed the phone from a cordless to a corded one so they have to speak int he front room rahter than walking upstairs with it for hours
again whopping bill

i hate branded stuff at supermarkets.

peachy,did they really have no idea where your dh's dad had been before the age of 3???

we're a strange combination of tight but extravagant - decide we want/need something that could be construed as extravagant (widescreen TV, skiing, repainting bedroom) but then work v hard to get the item at the lowest price we can, cutting corners if neccesary - so TV was end-of-line from wholesaler who normally sells to hotels; skiing was self-catered, self-drive in tiny apartment; bedroom was trade emulsion mixed to a Farrow & Ball copy colour.

works for us but writing it down it does sound really weird!

We're quite tight on a lot of things, second hand clothes/toys, make do and mend etc.

Extravagant in that dd has a morning at nursery even though I am a SAHM and on food. But we often mix own brand stuff (i.e. tomatoes) and spend out on bits like organic veg and nice fish.

Nope, a lady at the orphanage arranged for her Mum to foster him (which is why we're all a bit flippant about it I guess- he ahd a happy childhood) and she knows, but refuses to tell.

MIL was also abandoned by her aprents, but her Dad came back a year or so (not sure exactly) to get her, her Mother didn't though.

sounds very canny mrsb.Not odd at all.
sorry peachy to be sonosey but this is intriguing.Doesn't your dh want to know??

Greatest extravagance - spending £130 on haircut and colour.

Don't think we're really tight about anything. Although I did wear odd knee-highs yesterday, as couldn't be bothered to go to Boots and buy new pair...

Dh would love to know, FIL would now also as he's at that age where he's aware a genetic history might be handy. He's just bought a PC so I might suggest he goes onto one of those ancestry places.

Scarily, we DO know his real birth name. When DH and I met, there was a chap by this unusual name also there. He and Dh were about 5 years age difference, but could have been twins. they'd even turn up for meetings wearing the exact same outfits (and I don't mean a black suit ). They also had the same flare up tempers and similar personalities.

I'm tight about everything that I can be: so all cleaning stuff, washing powders & household cleaning things are as cheap as poss. Children's clothes are Asda, Primark or handme downs or swaps with friends.
Drive clapped out knackered old banger - very reliable but ugly & basic.
Have aupair as well, as it is cheapest form of childcare.
Biggest extravagance is probably the two annual holidays of one week each. Book really early, so that I can pay off in lots of time but go to nice places with good accommodation.

I'm not tight about anything. If I want it, I pretty much have it if I can afford it - you can't take it with you (money that is!).

Don't think I'm extravagent about anything

I'm really tight when it comes to buying clothes, in fact I'm seriously thinking of visiting the charity shops for when we go away in 7 weeks (not that I'm counting....)

forgot to mention my biggest vice - cosmetics and skincare products....now there's a surprise

I was going to write that my dh wishes I was tighter - but puts a whole new slant on this thread

If I like/want/need something and I have the money, I buy it.

Buy cheap shite cat food (hoping they'll go off somewhere else).

Would sound like Imelda Marcos if I started listing my little extravagances....

Noam,I am intrigued by people who buy new clothes to go on holiday,especially for kids.
For me,a good holiday is measured in part by how little we take with us.
GGG,go on,tell us!
My dh is as frugal as frugal can be,although he earns good money.Says it's a result of growing up not poor,but without much.

I am high maintence Moond

Like good food, good wine, fresh flowers, washing powder that works, appliances that work and last etc etc.

Have been dirt shit poor. Hasn't made me miserly, just appreciative!

I like the odd magazine, bottle of wine, takeaway

but we buy a lot of own brand, bogof and reduced because the date is coming up food. I got packets of lean steak mince the other day for 39p! I used one that day and froze a couple - will do fine for bolognese or cottage pie!

Internet

Boring things for the house

Oh yes,GG.
All things that add an extra frisson aren't they?
Schneebly,believe me,the 39p mince was an economy too far.
If you never post again,will assume you died of food poisoning....

Oh yes,GG.
All things that add an extra frisson aren't they?
Schneebly,believe me,the 39p mince was an economy too far.
If you never post again,will assume you died of food poisoning....

moondog you don't look right with a capital 'M'
you look all unbalanced

It looked and smelled and tasted fine to me!